[mdlug] Dual Core with Hyper Threading

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: David Lane

> Looking in the PC stores I see a huge drop in cpu prices and the New
> Duo has Hyper threading so the operating systems "See" 4 CPU's. the
> last time I checked some Linux Distro's only allow 2.

 I thought most of the commercial distros (Red Hat, SUSE) had abandoned
per-CPU licensing and were allowing as many as you could stuff in? I also
thought that hyperthreading was not counted as a 'licensed' CPU and only
physical CPUs counted, even when they were doing per-CPU stuff?

 That seems borne out by this:

 http://builder.com.com/5100-6390_14-5355332.html

 The non-commercial distros (e.g. OpenSUSE, Ubuntu) won't have any arbitrary
CPU limits.

 Sincerely,

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